Here’s the Fiction Longlist for the 2017 National Book Award
Every year, we wait with bated breath for the National Book Awards to announce their longlist for the year’s bestContinue Reading
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What If Kansas Seceded From the United States?
On Amanda Kabak’s award-winning short story, “The Republic of Kansas.”
Check Out the Spring Issue of ‘Arcturus’
Catch up on everything you missed at our sister literary magazine.
‘Startup’ is the Tech World Satire We’ve Been Waiting For
Several works of nonfiction have come at the tech industry from various angles, but the nuanced nature of tech culture lends itself best to novel form. That novel is here.
Prepare to Laugh and Cry with Max Winter’s Richly Layered Novel ‘Exes’
With ‘Exes,’ Max Winters’s prose is confident and powerful, and the blend of humor and gravitas is done masterfully.
In Kathleen Rooney’s Latest, Lillian Boxfish Finds Poetry in 1980’s New York
Despite her age, Lillian Boxfish is not ready to retire from life. Instead, she takes a walk. A long and fascinating walk. This is a story of that walk, of the people she meets, and of a life well lived.
‘All Grown Up’ is a Snarky Take on the NYC Novel
‘All Grown Up’ is a New York City novel that plays by its own set of aesthetic rules.
George Saunders Astonishes with His First Novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
A review of the prolific short-story writer’s debut novel.
‘Iceling’ Is YA Sci-Fi at its Most Engaging and Frustrating
Sasha Stephenson’s engaging but occasionally frustrating ‘Iceling’ opens sixteen years ago, when a team of scientists discover a bundle of abandoned human babies in the Arctic. As a work of YA genre fiction, it gets many things right.
10 New Books to Help You Survive the First 6 Months of Trump
As we inaugurate a president who believes climate change is a hoax, whose cabinet choices have made racist, homophobic, and xenophobic statements, and who has himself spoken hatefully and aggressively about immigrants, Muslims, women, and other marginalized communities, books are more essential than ever.
